Armand Duplantis comes from a sports family, compare it to Bolt, and doesn’t like to eat vegetables!
Swedish-American athlete Armand duplantis He has moved the boundaries of sports for practically for years, and the latest dash in his rich portfolio added, knocking down the record with a pole in a boot in Stockholm and set it up to 6.28 meters! Given the sports family background, Armand’s successes need no wonder.
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Specifically, his father was a wet and his mother of seventh and both brothers and his sister also jump with a pole. This was his 12th time to break the world record in this discipline, but for the first time in his Sweden. At only 22, he jumped 6.19 meters and knocked down the « magic border », and recently he practically competed with himself. They compare it to USA’s Bolt, which is the trademark of the athletics, and he himself does not run away from bright attention.
– I can’t blame anyone for expecting to have a crazy career like Bolt. I never expected to find myself in that position, I’m just a pole of a pole and my discipline is strange and special. It is amazing to me that at least briefly became the central event of athletic competitions. If I succeeded in that, I made my dreams come true – he spoke in September 2020.
Armand Duplantis was born on November 10, 1999. At Lafayette, Louisiani. Father Greg Duplantis was an American pole with a pointing with a personal record of 5.80 meters. He trained Armanda and other family members since childhood. His mother Helena Hedlund was a Swedish seven -year -old, and after going to study in the US, she played volleyball.
The oldest Armand’s brother Andreas, as Motkaš, performed for Sweden in the junior categories and played baseball as a high school student, his second older brother Antoine also coached baseball and a jump with a pole, but he opted for baseball, and Sister Johanna jumps with a pole on US high school competitions.
– Armand does not remember that, but as a child he jumped on an armchair, and the pole played the broom. He showed a great tendency to jump with a pole, playing baseball and football. But he was very small – his father recalls.
Armand started training at three years at a family garden!
– That is why my power jump has always been part of everyday life. It was quite normal for me to go a few jumps after school, as it was normal for someone else to chase the ball. That’s why I’m where I am today. I fell in love with sports very early and became good at it at a very early age, before becoming fast and strong. When that happened, my results exploded – said Armand, adding:
– I was so light that I couldn’t bend the pole at the jump. When I was seven, we ordered special poles so I could train.
His father Greg taught him from a young age.
« It has always been easy with him, his jumping is natural and he is ideal for that, » his father claims, and his mother added:
– Mondo always said that the jump with the pole was easy. He was really born for that.
Its advantage is the speed of running away because it runs around 10.45 in 100 meters. He owns the best results of all time in all age groups from seven to 12 years and from 17 years to the Senior World Record.
« Between the ages of 14 and 16, I was low, » he explained, but since his teenage age he has been taking care of his proper diet since his teenage age.
– He never loved the vegetables, he would always remove him. Now we are making progress, we master one type of vegetables at a time – commented his mother, who is a nutritionist, to which Armand has added:
– Of course I love fried chicken, so I’m from Louisiane!
But that lower growth was so harmless. Moreover, he almost cost him his career. Specifically, Duplantis jumped behind the house all his childhood, but he played football and baseball with his friends. And in the summer when he was 12, he completely switched to a baseball. Fortunately, it didn’t last long and soon had to decide on one sport, the athletics won. At the age of 18, he left college and became European champion with a jump of 6,05 meters.
All rivals can be perfectly imitated, their jumping style, but when the competition comes, Duplantis jumps with its style. Lavillenie, 33, became a rival from his role model, then a friend and mentor. But his mother compares him to Bubk, who set the world record 35 times, and the last, 6,15 meters, in 1993. The Ukrainian is a great support to Duplantis since he heard of him and is happy that « a pole jumper increases attractiveness and interest in athletics. »
« I’m not sure I should say this, but I don’t have the impression that Bubka had rebutted records with this ease as my son, » the proud mother said.
For Armanda, only the sky is the limit. Literally and figuratively.
